Your piece-of-paper description is spot on! I'm at a point in which I reject tests that measure something that can be manipulated/changed/"improved" by a drug. Many times, it seems that moving that number is the focus instead of treating whatever that number supposedly represents. Other times, that number is meaningless because it's not …
Your piece-of-paper description is spot on! I'm at a point in which I reject tests that measure something that can be manipulated/changed/"improved" by a drug. Many times, it seems that moving that number is the focus instead of treating whatever that number supposedly represents. Other times, that number is meaningless because it's not correlated with anything directly related to, or correlating with, a dangerous condition. Example: cholesterol, bone density, A1C.
Your piece-of-paper description is spot on! I'm at a point in which I reject tests that measure something that can be manipulated/changed/"improved" by a drug. Many times, it seems that moving that number is the focus instead of treating whatever that number supposedly represents. Other times, that number is meaningless because it's not correlated with anything directly related to, or correlating with, a dangerous condition. Example: cholesterol, bone density, A1C.